Hi, I am trying to get Tile Rendering to work correctly with V-Ray standalone and vrscene files exported from Maya.

Things that are not working correctly right now are:

1. If I do not enable "Override Resolution", the render will be black. The black frames do have the correct resolution. Enabling "Enable File Parsing" is not enough. When I enable "Override Resolution" it renders correctly.

2. The filename Deadline extracts with "Enable File Parsing" has a "_tmp" at the end of the filename. Apparently Vray for Maya adds a _tmp to the output filename in the vrscene file. When rendering with Vray standalone, this gets stripped. But when using "Tile Rendering", it gets used. It would be great if Deadline would strip this as well when rendering tiles.

3. Not all Render Elements get picked up by Deadline. In my testscene, only the Sample Rate element gets picked up by the vrayscene parser. Z-depth and Multi Matte get ignored. I did not test any other elements.

4. Even when animation is disabled in Maya, the filenames have a framenumber at the end. This framenumber is missing in the Draft assembly config file so the assembly job fails. When animation is enabled, even with just one frame, Deadline picks it up correctly.

Here are some screenshots of my settings.

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Please let me know if you want the Maya file, vrscene file, Draft config or if you need any other info. If you think that any of this is a bug on Chaosgroups side, please let me know so I can bring it up with them.

There is! The good news is that last week we solved the blank frames and render elements issues. Those were merged in last week, so I would expect them in the next service pack of 9.0. It seems the channels we're now looking for are the following:

Hi there,I have to bring this topic up again. I have been testing this feature with the latest Deadline 10 version.

Testing with a medium complexity production sceneWhen parsing the vrscene file, a large window that spans the whole screen pops up. No buttons are visible on screen. Pressing enter starts the render without assembly job. Jobs throws error "Error: illegal character in path. (System.ArgumentException)""Submit Dependent Assembly Job" is checked.

This is what the entry in the vrscene file for the output looks like:img_file="TileRendering2_0001.exr"; img_dir="//SERVER/FOLDER/FOLDER/FOLDER/FOLDER/FOLDER/FOLDER/TileRendering2_0001/";

If I specify the output file, Deadline parses the render elements correctly and also submits all needed assembly jobs. After the render finishes, the assembly job does not start automatically even though all dependencies are fulfilled. When I start the assembly job manually, I get the following error message in the logs.

I did notice the \ just before the filename which might be causing this. In the render settings in Maya (and thus in the vrscene file), the output path is using / while Deadline (on Windows) uses \.

Testing with a low complexity test sceneIf I test with a low complexity test scene (one light, one plane, one extra render element), I get the following error message when parsing the vrscene file:"The vrscene file does not contain any output file name data and no overrides were set. Please resolve these issues and submit again."

If I set the output path manually, I get this error message:"The vrscene file does not contain any output file resolution data and no resolution overrides were set. Please reolve these issues and submit again."

If I manually set the resolution as well, the render is submitted correctly along with the assembly job. Once the rendering has finished however, the assembly jobs do not start automatically.

Looking at the vrscene file I can find all the needed information like this: SettingsOutput vraySettingsOutput { img_width=3000; img_height=2000; img_pixelAspect=1; img_file="TileRendering_0001.exr"; img_dir="//thescopefiles/Projects/17055_LNC_NAV_Campaign/3D/maya/Renderings/_Tests/";

So it looks like the vrscene parsing in Deadline is somehow still broken.

That giant text box is supposed to be showing a list of output file names, but it's returning text which means get_output_data_from_vrscene_file() in VrsceneUtils.py is having trouble. This is definitely going to need test data. If you could pass the tests over here it would be quick for me to test it out, but I'll run your previous scenes through to make sure they don't reproduce there.